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At least 35 to 60 people have been killed in a night of violence in Paris, several are injured, and there are reportedly dozens of hostages taken.  The situation is fluid, and the numbers will change.  Some news agencies are describing attacks with grenades and automatic weapons.  There are at least seven locations reporting attacks.  Here are the three major events:  explosions at a bar near the Stade de France where the home squad was playing Germany, some of the blasts could be heard inside; Another attack at the Batoclan Concert Hall where the Eagles of Death Metal were playing, with as many as 35 people were killed and 100 were taken hostage, and close to the Batoclan, a man with an automatic weapons reportedly opening fire at a restaurant called La Petit Cambodge, killing several people.

French President Francoise Hollande has declared a state of emergency for the entire nation, which involves closing the borders and calling up "military reinforcements" to restore order; he's also urging people to stay home for the time being.  Hospitals have switched to an emergency plan to deal with mass casualties; US President Barack Obama says his country shares the values of "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" with its "oldest ally", and will help anyway possible - the two leaders have not yet spoken, because Mr. Obama says he knows what Mr. Hollande is going through trying to manage a terrible crisis.

"We are reasonably certain that we killed the target that we intended to kill" said Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren, when asked about the drone attack that targeted  "Jihadi John", the Islamic State propagandist seen in videos murdering Western hostages.  Mohammed Emwazi was born in Kuwait, and grew up on the streets of London, reportedly joining a gang before he ever set off to the Middle East to join Islamic State.  He was seen getting into a vehicle, which wound up in the sites of three drones - two American, one British.  One of the American MQ9 Reaper drones connected and the vehicle was incinerated, which is why officials are "reasonably certain" Jihadi John is dead.

Kurdish Peshmerga and Leftist PKK forces say they have retaken the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq.  Islamic State killed and enslaved thousands of the Yazidi religious minority after seizing the town last year.  As seems to be with everything else IS touches, the town being reclaimed is practically in ruins.

Russia banned Egypt's national airline effective Saturday.  This is amid speculation that Islamic State terrorists were able to plane a bomb on on the Russian MetroJet passenger plane that crashed in Sinai last month, killing 224 people.  President Vladimir Putin already ordered Russian carriers to stop flying to and from Egypt.

Japan issued an urgent evacuation order to the southwest coastal regions after an offshore earthquake registering magnitude 7.0.  A tsunami as big as a meter could hit Kagoshima prefecture and the islands surrounding it.

Myanmar's election commission overseeing the really, really slow vote count from last weekend's election is confirming that democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has passed the threshold to secure an absolute majority in parliament.  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and US President Barack Obama had already congratulated the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate on the victory.  The constitution - written by the outgoing military rulers - bans Suu Kyi from being appointed president by her majority, but she promises to government from above via proxy.

Guatemala is raising the minimum wage for getting married to 18 years.  It was 14 for girls and 16 for boys, which was a burr under the saddle of children's and Women's rights campaigners.  "It requires a cultural shift to fully implement the law, the training of judges, and reaching remote rural areas," said Christa Stewart of Equality Now, who is among those who foresee a particular challenge for Guatemala's Maya indigenous communities, who live in poor rural areas where child marriage is most common.